Nothing is so unsettling to a social order as the presence of a mass of scribes without suitable employment and an acknowledged status The explosive component in the contemporary scene is not the clamor of the masses but the self-righteous claims of a multitude of graduates from schools and universities. This army of scribes is clamoring for a society in which planning, regulation, and supervision are paramount and the prerogative of the educated. They hanker for the scribes golden age, for a return to something like the scribe-dominated societies of ancient Egypt, China, and the Europe of the Middle Ages. There is little doubt that the present trend in the new and renovated countries toward social regimentation stems partly from the need to create adequate employment for a large number of scribes Obviously, a high ratio between the supervisory and the productive force spells economic inefficiency. Yet where social stability is an overriding need the economic waste involved in providing suitable positions for the educated might be an element of social efficiency.

Worth reading as it goes a long ways toward explaining why/how the ruling class has been created to constantly erode our basic freedoms. An amazing insight into the future of the US written almost sixty years ago.

Ordeal of Change? The so-called scribes, however, are now going to scribe school with an 8th Grade education, and instead of learning mathematics and engineering, and other skills that might be useful, they’re learning how to bullyrag anyone who disagrees with them, and if that fails, gang up and beat on them.

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posted on 10/03/2017 4:45:21 AM PDT
by Eleutheria5
(If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.)

I
We are the hollow men
We are the stuffed men
Leaning together
Headpiece filled with straw. Alas!
Our dried voices, when
We whisper together
Are quiet and meaningless
As wind in dry grass
Or rats’ feet over broken glass
In our dry cellar...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPeHO1r8paU

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posted on 10/03/2017 5:57:08 AM PDT
by HLPhat
("TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS" -- Government with any other purpose is not American.)

A Republic is a system of government characterized by the Rule of LAW.

It’s the corrupt purpose and lack of good character that is the problem - not the structure of the mortar and bricks that form the prison... that was a fortress and sanctuary for we, the infidels of every denomination.

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posted on 10/03/2017 6:06:32 AM PDT
by HLPhat
("TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS" -- Government with any other purpose is not American.)

This army of scribes is clamoring for a society in which planning, regulation, and supervision are paramount and the prerogative of the educated!

A better description of these so called scribes: Intellectuals yet Idiots!

Our Governments, Universities/Colleges and many businesses/corporations are controlled and operated by the Intellectual Yet Idiots, who have been controlling our lives for decades. These Intellectual Yet Idiots control our media, institutions, most of DC and many states down to the county/city level.

Nassim Taleb Exposes The Worlds Intellectual-Yet-Idiot Class!

What we have been seeing worldwide, from India to the UK to the US, is the rebellion against the inner circle of no-skin-in-the-game policymaking clerks and journalists-insiders, that class of paternalistic semi-intellectual experts with some Ivy league, Oxford-Cambridge, or similar label-driven education who are telling the rest of us 1) what to do, 2) what to eat, 3) how to speak, 4) how to think and 5) who to vote for.

With psychology papers replicating less than 40%, dietary advice reversing after 30 years of fatphobia, macroeconomic analysis working worse than astrology, the appointment of Bernanke who was less than clueless of the risks, and pharmaceutical trials replicating at best only 1/3th of the time, people are perfectly entitled to rely on their own ancestral instinct and listen to their grandmothers (or Montaigne and such filtered classical knowledge) with a better track record than these policymaking goons.

Indeed one can see that these academica-bureaucrats wanting to run our lives arent even rigorous, whether in medical statistics or policymaking. They cant tell science from scientism??in fact in their eyes scientism looks more scientific than real science. (For instance it is trivial to show the following: much of what the Cass-Sunstein-Richard Thaler types??those who want to nudge us into some behavior??much of what they call rational or irrational comes from their misunderstanding of probability theory and cosmetic use of first-order models.)

This is an excerpt. To read or copy the full article go to the link below:

Those who were in charge, once a large majority, have thrown in the towel and resigned to leave the problem to someone else to solve. Who will step up? You were elected to solve the problem. Why don’t you?

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posted on 10/03/2017 6:47:54 AM PDT
by Rapscallion
(Politics just makes us hate each other.)

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